{"id":356939,"date":"2026-06-11T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:10:37","slug":"alejandro-de-castro-piera-named-consensus-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356939\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro de Castro Piera Named Consensus All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alejandro-de-castro-piera\/9486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9486\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro de Castro Piera<\/a> was selected as Honorable Mention for both the Golfweek and PING GCAA All-America Teams, both announced on Wednesday following an outstanding final season at Long Beach State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Big West Golfer of the Year, de Castro closed the year ranked No. 46 nationally, leading Long Beach State with a stroke average under 70 for the season at 69.6, going -61 against par over the course of the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe senior won the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate at -13, and had three additional Top 3 finishes during the season. He placed as the runner-up at both the R.E. Lamkin Invitational and the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate, and opened the year in third place at the Ram Masters Invitational.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn total, de Castro finished in the Top 5 six times, and the Top 10 nine times over the course of 12 tournaments in 2025-26. He played a big part in a historic fourth straight Big West Championship for the team, which saw the Beach place all five members of the team in the Top 5 in a 47-stroke victory at La Quinta Country Club.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe senior&#8217;s selection marks the second season in a row that Long Beach State has had an All-American, as <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/charlie-forster\/7528\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7528\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Forster<\/a> earned the honor last season. The Beach has had three All-Americans in the last four years, the first three for the program since 1983.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Senior Alejandro de Castro Piera was selected as Honorable Mention for both the Golfweek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-356939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}